Marquette Park neighborhood, Chicago

What fascists are not

What fascists are

Right-wing revolutionaries against

status quo

(liberal or conservative) Extreme nationalism and/or racism Law & Order = Absolute rule of core ethnic/racial group See similar problems as Left, but not class analysis: explain world through nation/race, conspiracy theories Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard) Jobbik party for “radical change”

Britain

What fascists are

"The role of racism and the role of anti-Semitism and of scapegoating in general is quite different for a fascist movement from that of a right-wing conservative movement or a traditional Klan-type movement. That is, it is not to put people in their place. It is not to make a sub-class out of them and to exploit, or super-exploit, their labor. It is genocidal. It is exterminationist.” --Ken Lawrence Hungary

Blood and Soil

Each race/ethnic nation has its place Need to stay in ancestral homeland (separatism) - Racial mixing as violating nature (

U.S. Fascist Sympathizers, 1920s-30s

Many Western conservatives saw communism as the main enemy (e.g., in Spain) Father Charles Coughlin addresses rally, radio Charles Lindbergh with Hermann Göring William D. Pelley of Silver Shirts German American Bund Henry Ford’s